The College of Visual and Performing Arts presents the

Winthrop UniversityMedal of Honor in the Arts

Friday, October 19, 20078 p.m.

Johnson Hall TheatreWinthrop University

Rock Hill, South Carolina

Winthrop University

Medal Of Honor In The Arts

Hosted by

Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. DiGiorgioand

Mrs. Vivian Anderson

Honoring

Mark CoplanPosthumous

private collector and advocate of South Carolina fine and outsider art

Beryl DakersEmmy-nominated filmmaker and journalist

Carlisle Floydinternationally renowned opera composer and librettist

Betty Plumbnational leader and advocate for the arts and art education

Dan Wagonerinternationally known choreographer and professor of modern dance

Friday, October 19, 2007Winthrop University Medal of Honor Scholarships are designed to benefit students who

are currently enrolled in Winthrop’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Thank you for your generous donations and continued support.

Winthrop University PresidentAnthony J. DiGiorgio

Winthrop UniversityMedal of Honor in the Arts

Steering Committee

DeeAnna BrooksAssistant to the President for University Events

Andrew Vorder BrueggeChair, Department of Theatre and Dance

Alice BurmeisterAssociate Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Karen DerksenAssistant Director, Winthrop University Galleries

Gale DiGiorgioDeborah Garrick

Executive Director, Alumni Relations

Brien Lewis Acting Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations

Judy LongshawNews Services Coordinator, University Relations

Libby PatenaudeDean, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Donald RogersChair, Department of Music

Kelly Ryan Coordinator, Donor Relations

Tom StanleyChair, Department of Fine Arts and Director of Winthrop University Galleries

Amanda WoolwineCoordinator, Medal of Honor in the Arts

Pre-Show EntertainmentProvided by

Presentation

The Vivian Brockman Anderson Scholarship

Jessica Elise Manner

Ms. Manner is a senior from Spartanburg, S.C., and is pursuing a B.F.A. in Art with a concentration in Visual Communications. She is recognized as a student of exceptional creative talent, leadership, initiative and academic excellence. Her

designs are presented this evening in the Johnson Hall lobby.

Winthrop West African Drum

Ensemble

Director

Michael WilliamsProfessor of Music

Musicians

Chad BoylesJonathan Harris

Kyle MerckMichael Scarboro

Winthrop Woodwind

Quintet

Director

Hilary YostLecturer in Music

Musicians

Jennifer Brown, ClarinetKenneth Evans, Oboe

Bryan Kazmaier, BassoonNatassia Lail, Flute

Chandler Smith, Horn

Presentation of Award to

Dan Wagoner

Performance I

“Visual Illusion” Choreography

Mary Beth Young

Imaging Concept

Mark Hamilton

Music

John Adams

Costume Design

Janet GrayAssistant Professor of Theatre

Lighting Design

Anna SartinAssociate Professor of Theatre

Dancers

Reba BowensAmy BuckmasterKrystal CollinsBrittany Rose

Stephanie Shannon

Dan Wagoner made his mark in dance through a 25-year career as head of Dan Wagoner and Dancers. The company performed to wide critical acclaim in

hundreds of U.S. cities and on four continents, as Wagoner’s works became known for their speed and style shifts and an uncanny sense of weight and balance. During a four –year period beginning in 1984, the company was selected by the S.C. Arts Commission to maintain a second home in the Palmetto State, making the first

such dual residency for a modern dance company.

Wagoner grew up in West Virginia’s Allegheny mountains as the youngest of 10 children. He knew from an early age he wanted to dance and came to the attention of Martha Graham while attending the American Dance Festival. He danced with

Graham’s company, before eventually forming his own company in 1969 and pursuing his emerging choreographic vision.

The company disbanded in 1994, and Wagoner started a year later teaching dance at Connecticut College, while continuing to choreograph for companies around the world including recent commissions by the Chinese International Dance Festival.

Presentation of Award to

Carlisle Floyd

Performance IIWinthrop Chamber Singers

Director

Katherine KinseyAssociate Professor of Music

Performers:

Selections

Cantate DominoHans Leo Hassler

Now Close All the WindowsLeonard Mark Lewis

I Can Tell the WorldMoses Hogan

Go Lovely RoseEric Whitacre

Carlisle Floyd is one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the United States today. His operas are regularly performed in this country and in

Europe; at least two of them – “Susannah” and “Of Mice and Men” - have entered the permanent operatic repertoire.

Born in 1926, Floyd earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano and composition with Ernst Bacon at Syracuse University and at the Aspen Institute. He began his teaching career in 1947 at Florida State University, remaining there until 1976,

when he accepted the prestigious M. D. Anderson Professorship in the University of Houston. He is co-founder with David Gockley of the Houston Opera Studio, a

training and performance program for young singers and coaches-accompanists.

In the years since “Susannah”’s premiere in 1955, it has been seen in every major American city, in England and Germany, and has been produced countless

professional companies, universities and colleges. “Of Mice and Men”, based on the John Steinbeck novel, is Floyd’s other most often performed work. In the 1998-99 season alone, it was presented by New York City Opera, Utah Opera, San Diego Opera, and Cleveland Opera. Floyd was inducted into the American Academy of

Arts and Letters in 2001, and in 2004 was awarded the National Medal of Arts in a ceremony at the White House.

Floyd has been asked why art is inseparable from human beings. “I feel the answer lies at least partially in the fact that human beings have from the beginning had a profound need to have their own uncomprehended, dimly preconceived selves

and lives mirrored back to them in some ordered, illuminated form while they are living them.” He noted that our most intimate contact with early civilizations has been through the art that has survived them. “For what more immediate access do we have to the minds and hearts of those who have preceded us on this planet than what they have revealed of themselves and their lives in art, for art, finally, after all

is said and done, is revelation.”

Sara Alford Mark Boozer

Shonda BradshawAlex BrommelThomas Ellis Sara Gillette

Samantha HughesCatherine Hunsinger

Thomas Husky Mark Johnson

Rachel McLeod

Jarvis MillerLisa Orum

Kayla OxendineJustin ParrishConnie PruittNoah Rawls

Magan RoachWill SinclairChad Waters Tex WilliamsEmily Wilson

Presentation of Award to

Mark CoplanPosthumous

(Accepting on behalf of Mark Coplan is his sister Lana Schlossberg)

Performance III

Visual Presentation: Captivated by Culture;

Mark B. Coplan, Collector of SC Art

Music

Buena Vista Social Club

Presentation by

Paul E. Matheny, III Chief Curator of ArtSouth Carolina State Museum

Co-curator of the Mark B. Coplan Collection exhibition at the WinthropUniversity Galleries Mark Coplan is a Columbia, S.C., native whose greatest contribution was his

extensive private collection and promotion of fine and outsider art of South Carolinians. A lawyer and real estate developer who restored many buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, he helped change the way the state’s residents

look at art and architecture.

Coplan earned a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a juris degree from the University of South Carolina. He was passionate about artists who worked or were born in South Carolina, traveling extensively to visit studios, galleries,

exhibitions and auctions. He particularly enjoyed discovering new and emerging artists or finding masters of bygone eras in order to reawaken interest in their work.

Upon his death in 2002, he had more than 450 works of art. Much of the art is now on exhibition in the State Museum of South Carolina.

Presentation of Award to

Betty PlumbPerformance IV

Excerpt from

Art

A Play by Yasmina RezaTranslated by Christopher Hapton

Acting edition by Dramatist Play Service

Director

Daryl PhillipyAssistant Professor of Theatre

Characters

Marc…David HensleySerge..Ryan Roberts

About the Play

In this opening scene of Yasmina Reza’s play Art, Marc goes to visit his

friend Serge who has bought a new painting for a large sum of money.

The painting becomes a catalyst for Marc, Serge and another friend

Yvan, to explore the questions about art, aesthetic sensibilities and—more

importantly—friendship.

Betty Plumb is widely respected as a leader and arts advocate for South Carolina. Since 1994, she has been executive director of the S.C. Arts Alliance, a statewide nonprofit agency, whose mission is to serve the arts through advocacy, technical

assistance and leadership development. Educated at St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida, Plumb is past chair and current council member of the State Arts Action

Network, a programmatic council of the Americans for the Arts. She has been president of State Arts Advocacy League of America and the National Community

Arts Network.

In June 2007, The Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts, presented Plumb its 2007 Alene Valkanas State Arts Advocacy Award, created to honor an individual who has dramatically affected the political landscape through their arts advocacy efforts at the state level. She also has received both the Presidential Award from the S.C. Arts Education Association and the S.C. Dance Association’s President’s Award in recognition for her leadership

in advocating for inclusion of dance as approved curriculum for South Carolina’s new physical education requirements in public schools.

Plumb also presents to educators and arts leaders throughout the nation, frequently giving workshops on how citizens can advocate for arts funding. She is a frequent

guest lecturer at colleges and universities on arts advocacy.

She reported that the only way her life could have been more affected by the arts is if she had made her living as an artist. “As a professional advocate for the arts, I have the opportunity to have an impact on policy, funding and programs that can bring

the arts to classrooms and communities throughout our state,” she said. Plumb credits her own mother for instilling in her the love of the arts, through exposure to

piano, dance and art lessons and music of all types. “Even before my professional career, however, raising two daughters, who themselves were active in theater and in other arts-related endeavors, taught my husband and I to value what arts can do for

a community.”

Presentation of Award to

Beryl DakersPerformance V

“The Game of Hiding”Choreography

Danielle Doucet

Music

“Tu Voz” by Celica Cruz & Oscar D’Leon

Costume Design

Danielle Doucet

Props and Lighting Design

Anna SartinAssociate Professor of Theatre

Dancers:Katy Morton

Abby PitchfordRandy SnightMarissa TusaDaron Wehle

Laura Williams

ABOUT THIS PIECE

This performance is a contemporary abstraction of a game of hide-and-

go-seek. This dance piece was developed through a choreography class in

the spring of 2007. It was also performed at the 2nd Annual Charlotte

Dance Festival in September.

Beryl Dakers has served as director of cultural programming at South Carolina Educational Television since 1982. She has produced and hosted weekly art shows, has supervised crews for remote broadcasts of South Carolina events and served as producer/writer/director for documentaries. She currently works as host of ETV

Forum and ETV Roadshow and as on-air talent for fundraising.

Dakers earned a bachelor of arts degree from Syracuse University and completed additional graduate coursework at Harvard University and the University of South

Carolina. She has won a National Black Journalists Association award for best documentary of “Sylvia Story,” as well as an Emmy nomination for it and two other

segments on public art. She is a 2002 inductee into the S.C. Black Hall of Fame and received the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2000.

She is most proud that in many cases, she was the conduit for many artists to have their works first recognized by the media, or were presented on television and

archived on tape. “That I also may have been able to help focus attention on artists who otherwise may not have been as visible or to serve as an advocate for the arts and arts education is a source of pride,” Dakers said. “What is indisputable is the fact that the myriad artists I have encountered during my career have enriched my

life immeasurably.”

Reception Entertainment

Winthrop University Jazz Quartet

Director

L. H. DickertAssociate Professor of Music

Performers

Mark Johnson, BassNicholas Gibson, Saxophone

Jonathan Harris, DrumsL. H. Dickert, Guitar

Winthrop UniversityMedal of Honor in the Arts

Medal designed and handcrafted by

Alfred WardProfessor Emeritus of Art and Design

Born in London, England, Alf Ward studied silversmithing at Canterbury College of Art and completed his National Diploma in Design at Birmingham University in 1963. Following his appointment to teach industrial design at the University of

London, Mr. Ward became chair of the department of silversmithing and jewelry at the City of London Polytechnic in 1974.

As a consultant designer to Spink & Sons in London, and by Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, Mr. Ward designed many presentation pieces for the Royal Air Force, the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, Revlon of Paris and individual awards for

Margo Fontaine and the Covent Garden Opera House.

Soon after Mr. Ward’s move to the United States in 1981, he became the director at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee. During his tenure at Winthrop University as Professor of Art and Design, Mr. Ward produced silverware for the American Crafts Council and ceremonial maces for the University of Tennessee, Coastal Carolina and Winthrop University. Before designing and producing the present Medal of Honor in the Arts his most recent commission was to create

brooch pins for the last 10 first ladies of South Carolina. In 2006, Mr. Ward retired from his position of Professor of Art and Design at Winthrop University and

continues to produce work through his freelance business.

Winthrop UniversityMedal of Honor in the Arts

Performance Coordinators And Crew

Andrew Vorder BrueggeProducer

Anna SartinStage Manager

Donald Rogers, Amanda WoolwineProgram Coordinators

Biff EdgeTechnical Director

Anna SartinLighting Designer

Russell LukeHouse Manager

Janet GrayCostume Designer

Emily Hammond, Natalie Kinney, Daron Wehle

Assistant Stage Managers

Caitlin Colyer, Jacci Deininger, Amy Evans, Shannon Plowden,

Whitney VaughnStagehands

Brian JonesCate Davison

Runners

James MintzSound Board

Danielle DoucetLight Board

David Brown, Jacob Catlett, David Fichter

Fly Crew

Lars LarsenAudio and Visual Services

Kasey BigaMedal Holder

Amber Baragona, Justin WilsonBox Office

Laura Ferguson, Darcy Golka, Tessa Thomas, Bethany Wade,

Kathryn Waller Honoree Escorts

Christina De Castro, Ashley Herron, Patrick Lutz, Ian Ostrowski, Amber

Rhye, Tiffani N. SandersUshers

Kayla Hucks, Erica OliveiraCoat Check